About Sophie Lancaster

Late one Summer’s evening Sophie and her boyfriend Robert were walking home. They were kicked, stamped and beaten by a group of thugs. Sophie protected Robert’s head, in doing so she suffered horrendous injuries from which she never recovered.

Sophie was murdered for nothing more than looking different.

The Sophie Lancaster Foundation was set up by Sylvia Lancaster, a youth worker and Sophie's mother, in her memory, and works to stamp out intolerance and discrimination in society.

Sophie and Robert were singled out not for anything they had said or done, but because they looked and dressed differently.